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Meeting of the Estates General
They met in Versailles. It is a question of a general assembly consisted of representatives of all the segments of the French company (except the poorest) distributed in three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and the ordinary people or Third estate. With this meeting, the revolution exploded: they had a strong dispute between since they were necessary to meet and since they had to vote for the estates. The king agreed to duplicate the number of representatives of the third estate, but not the -
Flight of Luis XVI and the royal family
It was a significant episode of the French Revolution when they tried to escape abroad disguised as family aristocrat Rusa. The episode increased the hostility towards the monarchy as institution. They were discovered and caught. -
Proclamation of the first Constitution of France.
It was the first written constitution in French history. It contained the French government reform, staying France set to a constitutional monarchy. It applied national sovereignty, separation of powers and the suffrage censitario (only the citizens were voting). -
National Convention and proclamation of the Republic.
This one is a new assembly, for universal masculine suffrage. This one would take charge of writing a new constitution. The National Convention was the principal institution of the First French Republic, elect Assembly of constituent character that concentrated the power executive and legislatively in France. -
It falls Robespierre and his followers. They are guillotined.
Robespierre is accused of being a dictator. He was arrested along with his followers. Robespierre was arrested and taken to the Place de la Revolution and was executed. -
The national convention is dissolved.
The national convention was dissolved and little later it was abolished. -
Napoleon Bonaparte gives a coup and ended the Directory.
Napoleon Bonaparte, military very ambitious young person, gave a coup d'état that finished with the Directory. On November 9, called 18 of Brumario, the troops directed by Napoleon took the control. Bonaparte achieved that they were nominating him The First Consul Vitalicio. -
Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France
Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed himself king of the First French Empire. He was supported by good part of the aristocracy, in a ceremony at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in the presence of Pope Pius VII. Napoleon crowned himself.
